A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)
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Changes in the Condition of Italy.—Dark Days.—Circumstances which led to the Invasion of the French.—State of things in Naples.—Fall of the Arragonese Dynasty.—Birth of Vittoria.—The Colonna.—Marino.—Vittoria's Betrothal.—The Duchessa di Francavilla.—Literary Culture at Naples.—Education of Vittoria in Ischia 271